Animal Head Tees

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Barcelona, Frederik Garcia, Jamiroquai, animal tees, art shirts, surreal t-shirts, surreal tees

Frederik Garcia is a tasty Barcelona label (with a lovely site – check out their screen-printing movie) that exudes a passion for the art and craft of designing and creating hand-printed t-shirts. It’s kind of a culture shock visiting the site, as it’s something more like a surrealist gallery than a store. The limited edition tees are in three surreal categories: Animal Heads, Barrio Maps and Cinq Petite Rêves (5 Little Dreams) although I’ll only be featuring their ‘Animal Heads’ tees, as most of the product photos seem to be part of some strange montage experiment, which I’m sure will make little sense to most t-shirt fans.

If you’re a Jamiroquai fan then these designs will be highly familiar, as the concept is on the same lines as their famous graphic logo. Still a nice selection of graphic tees, all in white, limited to 200 each and priced at €19.90 each plus shipping.

Cerva Tee

“A doe, a deer, a female deer…“. Like I say a very familiar design, I looked up Frederik Garcia at Google hoping to find a connection with Jamiroquai, but no joy there.

Cervus Tee

This one’s for the stags :p

Cunicula1 Tee

The original bunny girl tee.

Cuniculus Tee

Get the matching pair and prove to your fluffy tailed other half you’re in for the long run.

Aucellus Tee

Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’ She sure ain’t no looker but she looks good in black.

Elefantem Tee

I’ve never seen an elephant fly but at least now I’ve seen one wearing pants and sneakers :-0

A nice selection of silhouette tees, could be more original. If you want to delve further into Frederik Garcia’s subconscious do check out the other collections, a surreal taste would be a distinct advantage, www.FrederikGarcia.com.

Delete Toast Tees

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Delete Toast, art t-shirt, art t-shirts, art tees, designer t-shirts, photo montage, surreal tees

Here’s a brand new label, and I mean so fresh off the press it’ll burn your fingers. Delete Toast, which must be the strangest name for a t-shirt brand I have come across so far, are offering a slick batch of super fine tees to kick things off. Recently started by Joyce Kim, a professional graphic designer with an advertising/art direction background from NY’s Pratt institute, you can expect quality over quantity.

I asked Joyce about the name, “it’s simply a happy accident, a random blending of two words to form a new oxymoron.” Much like her t-shirt designs which are for the main part collages/photo montages, peppered with rather funky typographic and abstract experiments. Joyce lists her influences far and wide, being inspired by the fine arts, abstract graphics, nature, music, streetwear, and high fashion, her tastes and style are indeed eclectic.

There are only a few tees on offer at the moment, but rest assured more are to come, still what there is on offer is top quality so… let’s get toasty ;)

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